Our proposal involved cutting away the poor-quality rear extensions to the three existing half-timbered structures, restoring their delicate exterior features, and creating a gathering space where the local community could come together and celebrate their town’s previously inaccessible heritage assets. It also involved the construction of a fourth building, containing more than twice the gross internal floor area of its twentieth-century predecessor.
The contemporary component is conceived as a stack of smaller properties, appropriately sized for the central business district and conducive to the older built environment and vernacular. A considerable vertical bias ensures it can draw massing away from both the heritage assets and the town’s protected principal perspectives.
